On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:49:35PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment pages used for TCE tables (in addition to pages addressed
> by TCEs) are not counted in locked_vm counter so a malicious userspace
> tool can call ioctl(KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE) as many times as RLIMIT_NOFILE and
> lock a lot of memory.
>
> This adds counting for pages used for TCE tables.
>
> This counts the number of pages required for a table plus pages for
> the kvmppc_spapr_tce_table struct (TCE table descriptor) itself.
>
> This does not change the amount of (de)allocated memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c | 51
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> index 9526c34..b70787d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> @@ -45,13 +45,56 @@ static long kvmppc_stt_npages(unsigned long window_size)
> * sizeof(u64), PAGE_SIZE) / PAGE_SIZE;
> }
>
> +static long kvmppc_account_memlimit(long npages, bool inc)
> +{
> + long ret = 0;
> + const long bytes = sizeof(struct kvmppc_spapr_tce_table) +
> + (abs(npages) * sizeof(struct page *));
Why abs(npages)? Can npages be negative? If so, what does that mean?
Paul.
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